Jimi Hendrix
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James Marshall "Jimi" Hendrix (born Johnny Allen Hendrix; November 27, 1942 – September 18, 1970) was an American guitarist, singer, and songwriter. He is widely regarded as one of the greatest and most influential guitarists of all time. Inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 1992 as a part of his band, the Jimi Hendrix Experience, the institution describes him as "arguably the greatest instrumentalist in the history of rock music". Hendrix began playing guitar at age 15. In 1961, he enlisted in the US Army, but was discharged the following year. Soon afterward, he moved to Clarksville, then Nashville, Tennessee, and began playing gigs on the Chitlin' Circuit, earning a place in the Isley Brothers' backing band and later with Little Richard, with whom he continued to work through mid-1965. He then played with Curtis Knight and the Squires. Hendrix moved to England in late 1966, after bassist Chas Chandler of the Animals became his manager. Within months, he had formed his band, the Jimi Hendrix Experience (with its rhythm section consisting of bassist Noel Redding and drummer Mitch Mitchell), and achieved three UK top ten hits: "Hey Joe", "Purple Haze", and "The Wind Cries Mary". He achieved fame in the US after his performance at the Monterey Pop Festival in 1967. His third and final studio album, Electric Ladyland (1968), became his most commercially successful release and his only number one album on the US Billboard 200 chart. The world's highest-paid rock musician, Hendrix headlined the Woodstock Festival in 1969 and the Isle of Wight Festival in 1970. He died in London from barbiturate-related asphyxia in September 1970, at the age of 27. Hendrix was inspired by American rock and roll and electric blues. He favored overdriven amplifiers with high volume and gain, and was instrumental in popularizing the previously undesirable sounds caused by guitar amplifier feedback. He was also one of the first guitarists to make extensive use of tone-altering effects units in mainstream rock, such as fuzz distortion, Octavia, wah-wah, and Uni-Vibe. He was the first musician to use stereophonic phasing effects in recordings. Holly George-Warren of Rolling Stone commented: "Hendrix pioneered the use of the instrument as an electronic sound source. Players before him had experimented with feedback and distortion, but Hendrix turned those effects and others into a controlled, fluid vocabulary every bit as personal as the blues with which he began." Description above from the Wikipedia article Jimi Hendrix, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
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movie40 Hidden Music Treasures at the BBC
2024
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movieElectric Lady Studios: A Jimi Hendrix Vision
2024
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movieThe Beach Boys
2024
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movieLouder Than Rock
2023
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movieLouis Armstrong's Black & Blues
2022
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tvMcCartney 3, 2, 1
2021
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tvThis Is Pop
2021
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movieZappa
2020
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tv70 Years of Youth Revolt
2020
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movieMusic, Money, Madness… Jimi Hendrix Live In Maui
2020
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movieEric Burdon: Rock 'n' Roll Animal
2019
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tvThe UnXplained
2019
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movieThe Last 24 Hours: Jimi Hendrix
2019
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movieEric Clapton: Life in 12 Bars
2018
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movie27: Gone Too Soon
2018
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tvThe Top Ten Revealed
2018
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movieJimi Hendrix: Electric Church
2015
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movieJimi Hendrix: Hear My Train a Comin'
2013
Self - Musician (archive footage)
movieJimi Hendrix: Voodoo Child
2010
Self - Guitar, Lead Vocals
movieThe 25th Anniversary Rock and Roll Hall of Fame Concerts
2009
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movieJimi Hendrix: The Sex Tape
2008
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Beat Club: The 40th Anniversary Edition
2008
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movieJimi Hendrix: Feedback
2005
Self (archive footage)
movieJimi Hendrix - Live at Woodstock Definitive Collection
2005
Self - Guitar / Self - Vocals
movieElectric Purgatory: The Fate of the Black Rocker
2005
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movieRockthology 2
2004
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movieJimi Plays Berkeley
2003
Self - Guitar, Lead Vocals
movieBlue Wild Angel: Jimi Hendrix Live at The Isle of Wight
2002
Self - Guitar, Lead Vocals
movieIt's Black Entertainment
2002
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movieJimi Hendrix: Live at Woodstock
1999
Self - Guitar, Lead Vocals
tvClassic Albums
1997
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movieHey, Hey, We're The Monkees
1997
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tvTOTP2
1994
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movieDusty
1994
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movieCommercial Entertainment Product
1992
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movieJimi Plays Monterey
1987
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movieVideo from Hell
1987
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movieWhen the Music's Over
1983
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movieThe Abyss
1977
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movieThe Day the Music Died
1977
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movieJimi Hendrix
1973
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movieDynamite Chicken
1971
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movieParticipation
1971
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movieJimi Hendrix - Live at the Isle of Wight
1970
Self - Vocals, Guitar
moviePopcorn
1969
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movieThe Jimi Hendrix Experience: Royal Albert Hall
1969
Self (Guitar and Vocals)
tvThe Dick Cavett Show
1968
Self - Guest
moviePsych-Out
1968
Jimi Hendrix
tvOmnibus
1967
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movieLick Library Quick Licks Jimi Hendrix
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